Bandicam is a lightweight program to record game and desktop screen. It released 2 years ago; it has become popular like Fraps in the Asian market.

After launching the global version of Bandicam on January 5, 2011, Game-play videos captured by this program are spreading throughout the YouTube. It became essential software among online game users.

Bandisoft, developer of Bandicam, is a multimedia-based company that includes business-to-business game capture library, video library, and data-compressing solutions.

Bandisoft is quite a famous developer among the online game developers. Many online game companies such as NC soft, Nexon, Tencent, Dragonfly, Eyedentity Games, and Maiet Entertainment are using their multi-media solutions. Bandicam was their first business to customer product on the market.

Bandicam provides FPS management, and video-recording of games and streaming videos, which functions are similar to some other software, but Bandicam focused on solving online game recording problems to give online game users' needs.

The quality and the small size of the recorded files are key features of Bandicam. Bandicam uses DirectX/OpenGL capturing technology to get high-quality recording file, and Data-compressing technology to make the small recording file size. Both of the technologies embedded in commercial online games such as Dragon Ball Online, Dungeon Fighter, Bubble Fighter, GunZ, Ghost online, etc.

Another advantage of Bandicam is that it minimizes the CPU usage during the conversion of the streaming video. Bandicam can record various games like World of Warcraft, Minecraft, StarCraft 2, RuneScape, MapleStory, Second Life or Streaming video play program and it has much less lag when it records.

Hiqh-quality, Small recording file size, and Less Lag function are essential for online game recording. By virtue of its powerful functions and high-performance, many online game users are recording their gameplay videos and uploading them in YouTube.

Recently, Bandisoft announced that Bandicam will be updated in March. It will Improve DirectX 10 and 11 game recording and reduced much more lag. And also they will support 3 other languages (French, Chinese, Spanish) include English.